DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Presidency says that President Luis Abinader himself will not attend COP30 from 6 to 21 November in Belem, Brazil. When a journalist asked about the Climate Change Summit during the press conference of Monday, 3 November, the President had said he would be there.

But by Tuesday, the director for strategic communications of the Presidency, Felix Reyna shared a note saying the President would not travel to Brazil because he had to remain in the DR to attend to other matters.

The DR is likely to be represented by Max Puig, the president of the National Council for Climate Change and Carbon Market. Puig is a former Minister of Environment. When in Brazil for the Pre-COP30, on 16 October 2025, he stated that the climate agenda has become a fundamental axis for driving economic and social transformation processes in countries.

President Luis Abinader had remarked the...